ADAMS: The Man Who Swallowed A Dictionary
Anyone who knew David Ervine, or knows of him, will appreciate the title of Bobby Niblock’s play - "The Man Who Swallowed A Dictionary." In its hum...
October 05, 2023
by Gerry Adams
Opinion
EDITORIAL: Gonna Need Bigger And More Boats
The Irish Naval Service could do with some bigger boats. But more than that it could do with more boats of any size. And it could do with more men ...
October 04, 2023
by Irish Echo Staff
Opinion
Becoming Stronger by Becoming Weaker
The Irish establishment would rather honor the RIC than the 10 hunger strikers of 1981. The recent commemoration of the hunger strikers in Cork was...
September 28, 2023
by By Seamus Scanlon
Opinion
EDITORIAL: Irish America Rebounds
The 2020 U.S. Census results are out and the Irish of America are all about the place. Over the years, and certainly since the landmark 1980 census...
September 27, 2023
by Irish Echo Staff
Opinion
ADAMS: Lough Neagh Facing an Ecological Disaster
UP THE SHORE i The lough will claim a victim every year. It has virtue that hardens wood to stone. There is a town sunk beneath its water. It is th...
September 25, 2023
by Gerry Adams
Opinion
KIRWAN: Until We Meet Again in the Spring
The ospreys are gone. They left in the weeks after Labor Day. When they get the call – genetic or atmospheric - they don’t delay, it’s a long way t...
September 22, 2023
by Larry Kirwan
Opinion
O'SHEA: Child Rearing in 20th Century Ireland
It is a truism accepted in most cultures that children thrive in a supportive family and in a community where they feel valued and encouraged. The ...
September 21, 2023
by By Gerry O'Shea
Opinion
EDITORIAL: The Assembly Returns
The world returns to Manhattan this week for the annual gathering that is the opening of the United Nations General Assembly. For some, the visits ...
September 20, 2023
by Irish Echo Staff
Opinion
EDITORIAL: Casting A Light
The New York Times described Megan Stack's Sunday, September 3 Opinion Section front page story as an "essay." Some essay. Stack, billed by the Tim...
September 13, 2023
by Irish Echo Staff
Opinion
ADAMS: Unique Robert Ballagh Moore Street Print
As regular readers of this column know I have been involved for a very long time in the campaign to protect and develop as a historic and cultural ...
September 08, 2023
by Gerry Adams
Opinion
OSHEA: Strong Trade Unions Needed in America
In John Lennon’s fine album titled “Working Class Hero” he bemoans the betrayal of the American working class, “duped by religion, sex and TV” into...
September 07, 2023
by By Gerry O'Shea
Opinion
KIRWAN Musings and Mutterings in a Country Graveyard
I often take a train to New Haven nowadays, and since I find trains very relaxing I invariably feel drowsy as we pull out of Grand Central Station....
September 07, 2023
by Larry Kirwan